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Transforming HR Practices A Disruptive Approach
Opening Remarks When I was in school, I was very popular among my teachers as being one of the most disruptive kid in the class, and I never knew one day that the same behaviour will become a hot management topic.
Ladies and gentleman ….good morning …..its a pleasure to be here and its truly my privilege to speak on such a compelling , hot and provocative topic - Transforming HR Practices : A disruptive approach, because being disruptive is about imagination and imagination as we all know ……has no limits and no boundaries
My presentation will be on three parts –• Why do we need to look at disruptive approach • In that I will try to give you all a global context and then a local context • Some references to what can be a disruptive approach, which will then help in triggering some
thoughts and discussions
Bangalore Traffic
Recent studies have shown, the average traffic speed in Bangalore has come down to 9 km per hour and by 2020 it could come down
further to 5 km per hour.
Climate Change
Terrorism
Society of Intolerance
The World has moved
Human Practices & Processes
Agrarian
Farming - People worked 7 days a week, 24/7 lived with family, attended to family needs, everything co-existed
Technology
Exponential growth - Hierarchical and the interference of technology in our everyday life Science has provided solutions and at the same time equal amount of problems
Worse of both worlds
Industrial
Industrialisation – Segregation of work place and where we live, and therefore from 7 days – it became 6 days so that you could attend to family and personal errands
Created by Frederick Winslow Taylor, “Scientific Management: workflow, time and motion etc.
Linear Thinking vs Exponential Growth
It's what’s really causing
disruptive stress because as humans we think linearly,
but the world is changing
exponentially.
The Real Issue
VolatileUncertainComplexAmbiguous
So what do we do ?
Goal – Happiness and Wellbeing of everyoneand build a truly functional enterprise
People are at the Heart of all decisions
To change how we do thingsfirst we should change our outlook
Put people at the heart of decision-making
World has moved from – Farming – Industrialisation – Information
Let go the old ways of doing things, only then you will find new ways
Disruptive practices
Examine 4 cases
Take a look at W.L. Gore.Gore is one of the most successful
firms in the world. They have more than 10,000
employees, with basically three levels in their organizational hierarchy.
There is the CEO (elected democratically), a handful of functional heads, and everyone else.
All decision-making is done through self-managing teams of 8-12 people: hiring, pay, which projects to work on, everything.
Diversified multi-national manufacturing company, active in consumer products, textiles, electronics, medical and
healthcare, sealants and filtration.
Leadership Teams: Why Two Are Better Than One
Fishbowl provides the #1 requested manufacturing &
warehouse management solutions for QuickBooks!
No hierarchy. They’ve flattened everything out. Every person is a leader, paired with another and supported by a team.
Personal growth. They’ve allowed twice as many people to have leadership opportunities –
Strong employee growth in addition to company and revenue growth.
More creative outcomes.
Bhutan measures prosperity by gauging its citizens' happiness levels, not the GDP.
Now its ideas are attracting interest at the UN climate change conference
Bhutan is also being held up as an example of a developing country that has put environmental conservation and sustainability at the heart of its political agenda.
In the last 20 years Bhutan has doubled life expectancy, enrolled almost 100% of its children in primary school and overhauled its infrastructure.
What can organisations learn from tiny Buddhist country?
World's 2nd-richest man suggests 3-day work weekMexican billionaire Carlos Slim
With three work days a week, we would have more time to relax; for quality of life," Slim was quoted as saying.
5 day work week became the standard in 1938.
Despite gains in productivity and predictions of a significantly shorter work week that would follow, it has remained the standard for more than 75 years.
43% of employers offer at least some workers the option of a compressed work week
References Hierarchy-less structure: case of firm “W.L. Gore” a US based company
– Ref - https://hbr.org/2013/11/hierarchy-is-overrated /
Leadership Teams: Why Two Are Better Than One - Fishbowl, https://hbr.org/2012/04/leadership-teams-why-two-are-b /
Gross National Happiness in Bhutan: The big idea from a tiny state that could change the world http://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/dec/01/bhutan-wealth-happiness-counts
Move to 3-day work-week: http://money.cnn.com/2014/07/21/news/economy/three-day-work-week /
To Summarize The pace at which our world is changing is mind-
bending
Everything has a DOE – Date of Expiry – and therefore there should be DOE even for every HR Policy/Process
What got you here won't get you there, therefore let us question all the rituals
Story of Ritual
